New single family and duplex homes in Rifle will not have to have fire sprinkler systems next year, city council decided.

The issue was first discussed by council, developers and a fire official at a Nov. 7 workshop.

The 2009 International Residential Code Rifle adopted a few years ago calls for the sprinkler system requirement to take effect in 2013. However, Assistant City Manager Matt Sturgeon had noted that every municipality in Garfield County, except Rifle, opted out of the fire sprinkler requirement.

Instead, Sturgeon proposed the city require each unit of a duplex have a 2-hour rated firewall and unfinished basements include sheetrock on the ceiling of the basement level to protect the passage ways on the main living floor if a fire starts in the basement.

This helps protect against residents and public safety responders from falling through the floor if a fire occurs, Sturgeon wrote in a memo to the council. The current code would have required sprinklers in the basement areas.

Realtor Glenn Ault said the two requirements would add to the cost of constructing a new home, which is already out of reach of developers.

Home builder Jeb Savage said he had a hard time seeing a real advantage to requiring sheetrock in unfinished basements.

The reason most people have them built in new homes is for future improvements, he said.

City council voted 5-0, with Councilmembers Jennifer Sanborn and Keith Lambert absent, in favor of the code changes as Sturgeon recommended.

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Fire sprinkler requirement nixed

Contractors have been selected to handle the $1 million-plus installation of a sprinkler system at the larger of county government's two nursing homes -- a project expected to start in December.

Allied Fire Protection Systems, Inc., of Falconer, N.Y., submitted a low base bid of $1,048,333 for the work, said Bob Marz, a local architect working on plans to consolidate Pleasant Ridge Manor-West in Fairview Township with Pleasant Ridge Manor-East in Millcreek. Three companies bid on the project.

In addition, Erie's Newco Electric will handle electrical work for the sprinkler project, Marz said.

The company's bid, one of two submitted, was $112,100.

Marz said he expects the work to begin in December and finished by July 2013. Sprinklers must be installed at the 312-bed Pleasant Ridge Manor-West by August 2013 to meet a looming nationwide mandate.

County government plans to close the 76-bed Pleasant Ridge Manor-East, in Millcreek Township, and merge it with the Fairview Township facility.

See Saturday's Erie Times-News and GoErie.com for more coverage.

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